Let me know what to do. I'm now in a lab with a lot of computers that are always running.
You are starting out just like our top producers did. Having responsibility for a lab of computers sometimes means getting rid of flowers and fishy screensavers and allowing the CPUs to do real work in the off time.
I'll post better instructions after church, but for now go here and download the GUI Folding@Home 5.03 to get a feel for the program:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
We will eventually move you to the 5.04 console version, but it makes more sense if you can see the program in action.
Very important - you need a user name (we mostly use our FReeper names) and the team needs to be 36120. Leave everything else as default for now.
"Borg" them all!!
...assuming it's not against company policy.
Your best bet is to visit the Stanford link and download the console version (not the GUI version) and place it on one of the lab machines. Run it from the DOS prompt with the -config option, follow the prompts and you should be off and running.
There are two files to monitor shortly after starting, to make sure that you've got access to F@H:
Reading through FAHlog.txt will quickly tell you if your machine is able to access the F@H servers to pull down work units, and push up the results.
Looking at unitinfo.txt will tell you what the status is on the current work unit.
If you're going to be controlling a lab of folding machines, I'd recommend getting an application to help you keep track of all of them at the same time. There are links to a few up above, or you can FreepMail me for instructions on how to gain access to one that I wrote.
Keep asking questions on stuff you don't understand, and we'll help you through any issues you have.
Happy folding!
I don't have access to a lab but I do have eight personally-owned computers (actually six: two them have dual core CPUs) churning out almost 1000 points a day.
After you get started and your first result post, the best place to check results and progress is this link.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120